By Artie Capshaw

The Blats have a manager! Or, to put it more precisely, one of the band’s fans has taken it upon himself to “help them out.” Scott “Spawn” Smith, who loads a truck with bandleader Sonny Blitt (we all need day jobs; ours is sitting at this desk waiting patiently to go out and get drunk in a few hours), has been calling the papers, sending out fliers and has even got the band off their ass and into a studio—OK, a bedroom—to make a demo he can send to labels and clubs. Sounds real professional, huh? Yep, that’s our job, to make nothing-better-to-do-today favors-for-friends sound like something they do in the real world…